The Defense Department’s message is unambiguous: Russia is a much bigger threat than ISIL. As the voters of New Hampshire braved the snow to play their part in the great pageant of American democracy on Tuesday, the US secretary of defence was setting out his spending requirements for 2017. And while the television cameras may have...

Sessions of the subgroups on political affairs, security, and humanitarian affairs of the trilateral contact group on Ukraine took place in Minsk on 10 February. “There was no session of the trilateral contact group on Ukraine. Its meeting was postponed due to reasons of coordination and planning,” explained Martin Sajdik. …read more...

BRUSSELS (AP) — NATO and the European Union have signed an agreement to improve cooperation in cyberdefense, which NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg called a concrete example of the two Brussels-based organizations joining forces to counter modern forms of hybrid warfare. The technical agreement, signed at NATO headquarters on Wednesday,...

“The four working groups will certainly resume talks in two weeks. We had plans to hold the meeting (of the contact group – BelTA’s note) on 24 February. However, there is a chance that we will reconvene earlier,” Martin Sajdik said. …read more Source:...

MARINKA, Ukraine – Three people were killed on Wednesday, February 10, when a passenger minibus hit a mine in separatist eastern Ukraine during a relative calm in fighting in the 21-month war. An AFP reporter at the scene saw pools of blood and personal belongings of the victims scattered near … …read more Source:...

Belarus and Armenia have agreed to establish an exchange of books and cooperate in translation of works by Belarusian and Armenian writers and poets into national languages, Armenian Deputy Culture Minister Artur Poghosyan told journalists on 10 February, BelTA reports. The Armenian official attended the opening ceremony of the 23rd International...

At least three people have been killed in eastern Ukraine when a bus hit a land mine in a no man’s land between separatist rebels and government troops.The Kiev-controlled prosecutor’s office for the Donetsk region said Wednesday that the driver and a woman in the bus were… …read more Source:...

DONETSK, Ukraine (AP) ” At least three people have been killed in eastern Ukraine when a bus hit a land mine in a no man’s land between separatist rebels and government troops.The Kiev-controlled prosecutor’s office for the Donetsk… …read more Source: The New Zealand...

KIEV (Reuters) – Four Ukrainian civilians were killed when a minivan carrying them drove over a landmine as they waited to cross out of separatist-held territory in eastern Ukraine on Wednesday, authorities said. …read more Source: The...